scareships » Ireland http://airminded.org/scareships The British phantom airship scares, 1909-1913 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:52:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en Kingstown, County Dublin http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/19/kingstown-county-dublin/ http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/19/kingstown-county-dublin/#comments Tue, 18 May 1909 14:25:02 +0000 Brett Holman http://airminded.org/scareships/?p=58 At 1.30am a man cycling home saw an airship with two brilliant lights flying at speed to the southwest. (Kingstown is now Dún Laoghaire.)

Globe, 20 May 1909, p. 7.

]]> http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/19/kingstown-county-dublin/feed/ Belfast, County Antrim http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/16/belfast-county-antrim/ http://airminded.org/scareships/1909/05/16/belfast-county-antrim/#comments Sun, 16 May 1909 12:10:02 +0000 Brett Holman http://airminded.org/scareships/?p=35 A score of people all over the city observed ‘a long cigar-shaped object’ with a ‘brilliant headlight’ at 10pm for about 15 minutes. That it was occupied was ‘conclusively proven’ by a flashing red light. The object was moving rapidly at a height of about two or three thousand feet then slowed and disappeared to the northeast.

Manchester Guardian, 18 May 1909, p. 7, 20 May 1909, p. 7; Standard, 18 May 1909, p. 8.

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